Brewster Stanislaw, Director of Product at Simply Measured, opened my eyes to the importance of dark social. This “undercover” traffic shows up as direct traffic in web analytics and masks the true impact of traffic from social media.
It would be beneficial for any business utilizing social media to take a closer look at your analytics to understand the impact of dark social. Listen to this episode with Brewster Stanislaw to hear how a cosmetics brand was able to apply more marketing budget after further analysis of dark social. This episode can help you understand dark social’s effect on your organization’s social marketing efforts.
On this episode you’ll discover:
- That Simply Measured is a software company that provides social analytics to brands, giving marketers insight into a dozen social networks to understand how their social marketing is performing.
- How the term dark social was coined four years ago and how it’s all of the traffic driven by social that shows up in your analytics as direct traffic.
- How dark social is traffic that doesn’t pass a referrer, such as text, email, chat, social media sites (some private and some public).
- How 50% of social traffic is from dark social sharing, and how 70% of social sharing is dark and done in a more private sense through messages, text, email, Slack, What’s App, etc.
- Why Brewster recommends using a URL shortener and why you should remember a click is not equal to a visit.
- How marketers can’t fully listen to what consumers are talking about without an understanding of dark social.
- How dark social makes it difficult to follow conversion behaviors and the entirety of the customer journey.
- What the user agent field is in web analytics and how it can shine some light on otherwise dark social.
- Why Brewster says your organization should dive deeper into web analytics to get a better understanding of social traffic and why social marketers should think more intentionally about this.
- How a cosmetics company suspected social was driving value and how they discovered by using Simply Measured’s social analytics software that 72% of direct purchases were driven by social.
- How the cosmetics company Brewster referenced was able to find out which products were driving social sales and then had a business case to request and receive more budget to support their campaigns.
- How micro mavens are influential among their friends and are driving sales.
- Why Brewster says you should analyze how much direct traffic you have and if it’s high you should dig into the analytics.
- How dark social affects various departments and how the social marketing team should demonstrate its value to their organization to serve as a connective tissue.
“Social shouldn’t be siloed; it should be a layer that lives throughout the organization.” @Brewws
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My LinkedIn account was ranking on the first page for best mommys blog keyword quite a few years back and I didn’t have any idea. While working, I stumbled upon the Analytic section of LinkedIn and saw that most of the visitors are coming from search engine later on I realized that in my profile I’ve used “Mommy’s blog” word a lot of time and that is the reason why it was ranking well on SERP. This is how I came to know about SEO and I was also amazed by the fact that how easy it was to rank for competitive keywords back then. Anyways loved your article and please share more tips on SEO.
Thanks for sharing. The number of times you mention a word or phrase is still a factor for sure.
We love hearing tips as well as questions our reader, so keep them coming!
Should I change keywords overtime based on what’s popular on the internet?
There is a lot of value in this article, especially for those looking to improve their visibility on LinkedIn. My favorite of the fifteen tips shared in this article is number nine. I’ve observed that people with custom profile links, seem to get more attention than those who haven’t customized their LinkedIn profile URL. Interesting article, thank you for taking the time to put it together.
Customizing LinkedIn URLs create more visibility for sure! Thank you, Bret.
I agree with the recommendations, they are a very important part of our strategy on LinkedIn, it can give confidence to potential customers (or leaders when someone is looking for a job).
People shouldn’t underestimate keywords on their LinkedIn profile! This helped potential buyers to find me on LinkedIn more easily when they searched for certain products and/or services. Thanks Viveka!
Thank you for another great blog post. For the alt text and/or naming images, do you mean two to three different keyword phrases as a maximum, like this?
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Or can you add more keyword phrases than this?
Hey David – I honestly don’t know the efficacy of adding more keywords than that. I would stick with what you have above.
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